Question 1(Multiple Choice Worth 4 points)

(05.05 LC)Use the map below to answer the following question:

Map of Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia labeled, Growth of Rome 500 BCE - 107 CE. The darkest green color is labeled, Original Roman Republic (500 BCE). The darkest green area on the map is the small area around the city of Rome. Another green color is labeled, Imperial gains by 264 BC. This green color on the map is most of the Italian peninsula. Another green color is labeled, Imperial gains by 146 BCE. This color on the map includes most of Spain, Sicily and Sardinia, Greece, and part of Northern Africa around Carthage. A light green color is labeled, Imperial gains by 44 BC. The light green area on the map extends to Gaul, Asia Minor, Syria, and Numidia in North Africa. A light yellow color on the map is labeled, Extent of Roman Empire by 107 AD. This color on the map includes all of the previous areas, an extends to Britain, as well as further inland in Europe and Asia, and the entire North African coast.
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Which statement explains why Britain became a part of the Roman Empire much later than nearby Gaul?
Mountains near the coast of Gaul were an obstacle. Rome was not interested in local resources from Britain. Fierce tribes in Britain held off Roman soldiers for many years. The channel of water between Britain and Gaul was an obstacle.

the answer is a, salt plain

answer:   c. the drafting of common sense

explanation:

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.

to tell the truth it is a mix of the a and d because after the romans argued among themselves outside forces took control however it is mostly d.